This weekend, as I mentioned earlier, I bought a new food processor. I am sure you will soon grow sick of me talking about it because I am in love with it. In addition to the sweet potatoes I made for C on Friday, I made him some butternut squash and carrots on Saturday. I won't bore you with the carrots (chop, steam, puree), although I will give you a warning: When you cook the carrots, DO NOT use the water you steamed them with to add to the puree because there are some potentially harmful nitrates involved. I read that. Otherwise I wouldn't know it. It may or may not be true or a big deal, but I am not a doctor, so I used regular water to thin out the carrots.
Now to the butternut squash. For those of you who don't know, this is what a butternut squash looks like. It is the coolest of the squash family because it has the funniest name. It is like the Conan O'Brien of squash: slightly orange and unattractive, but funny and tasty so people love him it anyway.
Cut the squash in half, length-wise
Use a spoon and scoop out the seeds and stringy bits in the bulbous section of the squash. It is much like a teeny pumpkin, only WAY easier to clean.
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Preheat oven to 400 and bake for about 40 minutes
Scoop out the "meat" of the squash. You should be able to get almost all of it out, leaving only the skins.
Puree until smooth.
Add water, if necessary, to thin the puree a little more and you will have baby worthy butternut squash! Yum! You would not believe the color. This camera/picture cannot do it justice. It looks so good I might eat it. I froze the butternut squash and carrots because C was still working on the homemade sweet potatoes. I plan to add some green stuff to the mix, as well as apples and bananas, so that my little man doesn't turn orange with all of these orange foods!
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While I was cooking for C-Note on Sunday, I cooked a little something for Billbo and me. I cooked the brown rice and black beans necessary for my Paradise Island Bean Burgers. I talked about them in a previous post and I decided to show you how delicious they look.
With a spinach salad with homemade Tahini dressing? Yes please!
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I also tackled the spaghetti squash this weekend. We haven't had it yet, but don't worry. Pictures and review to follow!
For those readers who do not have babies and who do not give a flying flip how to cook a butternut squash edible by a 6 month old, I promise, I will not babyproof every post. I am just so embarrassingly obsessed with the food processor that I could not wait to use it. I am pretty sure that soon, no one will believe I was ever cool with as much as I want to stay at home and hang out with my kitchen appliances lately. Loser. Sorry Bilbo. At least the family will have tasty purees and homemade dressings for a while.
Your blog titles rock my face off.
ReplyDeleteI used spaghetti squash instead of noodles when I made spaghetti the last time and it was delicious! Jared even said it was good although he still ate noodles.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Stacey. I try.
ReplyDeleteKelly, I can't wait to try the Spaghetti Squash. I think we are going to have it tomorrow night. Hope Billbo likes it.